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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cultivation of flowers or of flowering plants.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The cultivation of flowering plants.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The farming of flowers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the cultivation of flowering plants

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin flōs, flōr-, flower; see flower + culture.]

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